Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Chemistry on Friday November 17, 2019 for a guest lecture by Zachary Hudson, PhD, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Chemistry at the University of British Columbia. He will be speaking on "Mutliblock Nanofibers from Organic Electronic Materials".
Abstract:
Techniques for the assembly of hierarchical nanostructures from soft matter have opened the door to many new applications of nanotechnology. Despite these achievements, nanoscale syntheses which rely on self-assembly can be highly dependent on conditions such as solvent and temperature if the integrity of the nanomaterial is to be maintained. Bottlebrush copolymers provide a compelling bottom-up approach to the synthesis of hierarchical nanostructures from soft material, allowing for the preparation of multicompartment structures that remain nanosegregated by virtue of their covalent chemistry. Here we describe methods for the preparation of fiber-like nanomaterials that mimic the multilayer structure of organic electronic devices on individual polymer chains. Narrowly dispersed fibers are prepared from materials commonly used as the hole transport, electron transport, and host materials in organic electronics, with molecular weights on the order of 106 Da. Finally, we use this approach to prepare nanofibers with the structure of multilayer organic devices on single macromolecules, and to reveal new photophysical properties enabled by this unique morphology.
Zachary
M.
Hudson is
an
Assistant
Professor
and
Canada
Research
Chair
in
Sustainable
Chemistry
at
the
University
of
British
Columbia.
Zac
was
born
in
Ottawa
in
1986,
and
completed
his
B.Sc.
at
Queen’s
University
in
Kingston,
Ontario.
He
remained
at
Queen’s
to
pursue
a
Ph.D.
in
Inorganic
Chemistry
under
the
supervision
of
Prof.
Suning
Wang,
focusing
on
the
development
of
luminescent
materials
for
organic
electronics.
During
his
Ph.D.
he
also
held
graduate
fellowships
at
Jilin
University
in
China
as
well
as
Nagoya
University
in
Japan.
He
then
moved
to
the
University
of
Bristol
as
a
Marie
Curie
Postdoctoral
Fellow
with
Prof.
Ian
Manners,
followed
by
a
second
Postdoctoral
Fellowship
at
the
California
Nanosystems
Institute
at
the
University
of
California,
Santa
Barbara
with
Prof.
Craig
Hawker.
He
currently
leads
a
research
program
examining
a
variety
of
questions
in
synthetic
materials
chemistry,
ranging
from
the
development
of
solutions
for
energy-efficient
displays
and
light
sources
to
the
self-assembly
of
electronic
materials
on
the
nanoscale.